<p>Personally I've no major objections to lowering the limit. It's an arbitrary number after all, so a different arbitrary number is fine. </p>

<p>One minor point is that this feels like papering over the cracks. If the diff uploads are taking too long and timing out, we should find out the cause - either the code is inefficient (likely more complex for deletes than additions), or the databases are too busy. It could be better to solve those problems instead.</p>

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